 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
punish
verb: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students
were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to
punish the dog for soiling the floor again" [syn: {penalize},
{penalise}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punish \Pun"ish\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Punished}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Punishing}.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire,
punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See {Pain}, and
{-ish}.]
1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or
suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a
view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in
retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with
death; a father punishes his child for willful
disobedience.
A greater power
Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.
--Milton.
2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender;
to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as,
to punish murder or treason with death.
3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with
regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
[Colloq. or Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct;
discipline. See {Chasten}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "punish":
abuse, admonish, agonize, amerce, avenge, banish, batter, be quits,
beat, beat up, birch, bloody, bring to account, bring to book,
call to account, cane, cashier, castigate, chasten, chastise, claw,
convulse, correct, criticize, crucify, damage, deal with,
discipline, draw and quarter, dress down, electrocute,
even the score, excommunicate, excruciate, execute, exile, fine,
fix, flog, get even with, handicap, hang, harm, harrow, hurt,
impale, imprison, incarcerate, inflict upon, injure,
kill by inches, knock about, knock around, lacerate, lambaste,
lancinate, lash, lock up, macerate, make quits, maltreat,
manhandle, martyr, martyrize, masthead, maul, mulct, paddle,
penalize, pillory, polish off, put away, put down, rack, rebuke,
reprove, revenge, rip, rough up, savage, scarify, scold, scourge,
send down, send up, settle the score, settle with, shift, spank,
square accounts, swill, take revenge, take to task,
tar and feather, thrash, torment, torture, trounce, visit upon,
whip, wring
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